APS Fellowship awarded to Tino Nyawelo October 4, 2024 Above: Tino Nyawelo The American Physical Society has elected the Society’s 2024 Fellows, one of whom is University of Utah’s Tino Nyawelo. The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions in physics research, important applications of physics, significant contributions to physics education, or […]
Read MoreThe Art and Science of Innovation: Catmull’s Story Sep 16, 2024 Above : Edwin Catmull, co-founder of Pixar. | Pixar Ed Catmull doesn’t have the intense presence one might expect from a man with his resume. Not only has Catmull [BS’69, physics] won five Academy Awards, he’s also received an ACM A.M. Turing Award — […]
Read MoreThis article originally appeared on @THEU Omega Centauri is a spectacular collection of 10 million stars, visible as a smudge in the night sky from Southern latitudes. Through a small telescope, it looks no different from other so-called globular clusters; a spherical stellar collection so dense towards the center that it becomes impossible to distinguish individual […]
Read MoreThis article originally appeared in CoS “I think teaching people that it’s okay to need breaks, to not know what’s next, to give room to learn and change is the most important thing to build an accepting environment like that.” Transitioning from high school to college can be challenging in ideal circumstances but at the height […]
Read MoreThis article originally appeared in CoS The ALSAM Foundation has made a substantial gift toward the latest addition to the science campus at the University of Utah: the L.S. Skaggs Applied Science Building. The 100,000-square-foot building will include modern classrooms and instruction spaces, cutting-edge physics and atmospheric science research laboratories, and faculty and student spaces. Scientists […]
Read MoreThis article originally appeared in @THEU “Would you consider Tony Hawk a physicist?” “I would consider Tony Hawk a physicist. If nothing else, he’s an intuitive scientist, right?” It looks like magic. When skateboarders launch off the lip of a vert ramp to fly into flips and spins, it appears they’re defying gravity. In fact, these […]
Read MoreThis article originally appeared in @THEU MARRIOTT LIBRARY The J. Willard Marriott Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Alison Regan Library Thesis Award: Eliza Diggins, Savannah McDaniel and J. Clista Galecki. These students were chosen for their exceptional senior theses in the fields English, of physics and astronomy, and chemistry. Each […]
Read MorePublished on: August 26, 2024 Neutrino Oscillation Research Advances July 9, 2024 Above: A Layout of IceCube Lab depth compared to the height of the Eiffel Tower. In the world of particle physics, electrical charges define the terms. While electrons have a negative charge, the appropriately named “positron” has a positive charge. But then there […]
Read MoreThis Article originally appeared in @THEU Intro adapted from a Northwestern article written by Amanda Morris. In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including University of Utah astrophysicist Tanmoy Laskar, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, GRB 221009A. Now, physicists have confirmed that the phenomenon responsible for the historic burst—dubbed the B.O.A.T. (“brightest […]
Read MoreThis Article originally appeared in @THEU On April 9, 2024, a community of refugee students and their families, scientists, educators and policymakers celebrated an event three years in the making—the installation of five cosmic ray detectors atop the Department of Workforce Services Utah Refugee Center in downtown Salt Lake City. The detectors, which measure echoes […]
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